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Sahtu – Paul Andrew, Yvonne Doolittle, Danny McNeely, Judi Tutcho – CBC

Nov 17, 2015

All 4 candidates running to replace Norman Yakeleya agree: the Sahtu needs an all-weather highway

Four candidates are running to replace longtime Sahtu MLA Norman Yakeleya, who announced shortly before the election he wouldn’t run again for health reasons.

Sahtu is geographically diverse, embracing vast Great Bear Lake, several hundred kilometres of the Mackenzie River valley, and the Mackenzie Mountains, which divide N.W.T. from Yukon, and stretching east to the beginning of the Barren Lands.

Norman Wells, an oil drilling and refining centre founded in the 1930s, remains the area’s transportation and supply hub. It is the only predominantly non-aboriginal community in the region. If it is ever built, the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline would cut directly through this district.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-election-sahtu-candidate-profiles-1.3321827

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